Martinez The Search for Method in STEAM Education

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-55822-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 165 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book explores various approaches to building a positive interdisciplinary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) learning environment, as described by educators across the K-20 educational ladder. Crucial to their success, Martinez finds, is the playful and performatory approach they employ in their teaching. Their practices are creative, improvisational, and inclusive, and are shared in detail through illustrations and interviews. Throughout the book, the author explores a Vygotskian cultural performatory approach to creating interdisciplinary STEAM learning environments, drawing out the history of this approach and its success in fostering collaboration, creativity, leadership, and communication skills, as well as its effect on social, emotional, and cognitive growth in both formal and informal educational settings.

Jaime E. Martinez is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), USA. His active research interests include STEAM education, service-learning pedagogy, and Vygotskian cultural performatory approaches to human development and learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martinez, Jaime E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Contents;7
3;Part I Setting the Stage;9
4;Chapter 1 The Education for Workforce Development Paradigm;21
4.1;Weak Links;23
4.2;Accountability and Achievement;24
4.3;Standards;25
4.4;Don’t Reform, Perform!;27
4.5;References;27
5;Chapter 2 Methodological Approaches to STEMSTEAM Learning;29
5.1;Thoughts on Centeredness;30
5.2;Project-Based Learning Professional Development;31
5.2.1;Disequilibrium;32
5.2.2;Dispositions;34
5.3;Systematic Approaches;36
5.3.1;Performing With(in) a System—A Slight Digression;37
5.3.2;Irony and the PBL Workshop;38
5.4;Experiential Approaches;39
5.5;References;41
6;Part II Dialogues;42
7;Chapter 3 Science;49
7.1;Interdisciplinary Problems;49
7.2;Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education and Research;51
7.3;An Interdisciplinary Conversation;53
7.4;Science Education Is Changing;64
7.5;References;66
8;Chapter 4 Technology;67
8.1;Language, “Tool and Result” Technology;68
8.2;(a) Historical Accounts—Digital Natives;69
8.3;Andrea’s Tech Crew;70
8.4;Jose Santiago’s Family;72
8.5;References;75
9;Chapter 5 Engineering;76
9.1;What’s This Maker Stuff in the Schools All About?;76
9.2;The Maker Movement and Engineering in Education;77
9.3;Traditional Path in Engineering;77
9.3.1;Informal Conversations with Two Young Women;78
9.4;The Magnet School Approach;79
9.4.1;Magnet School Details;84
9.5;STEM Learning and Special Education;89
9.6;Some Panel Comments on the Maker Movement;95
9.7;Reference;96
10;Chapter 6 Art;97
10.1;Performance and Preparation;97
10.2;A Playful Interdisciplinary Artist;103
10.3;Vygotsky, Creativity, and Art;111
10.4;Questions and Answers;112
10.5;References;113
11;Chapter 7 Math;114
11.1;Performances of Math Conversations;115
11.2;It Is Hard to Be Developmental;117
11.3;Brains Pre-Equipped for Doing Math in Social Settings;119
11.4;Performatory Tools;122
11.4.1;An Interview with Jeff;122
11.5;That’s Why Math Learning Is Hard;129
11.6;References;130
12;Part III Development Takes Practice;131
13;Chapter 8 Service-Learning Project;136
13.1;Organizing in Academia;136
13.2;Yes, and;136
13.3;Improv Games;137
13.4;Building an Environment with Relationships;137
13.5;Creating New Stages;138
13.6;Producing School;140
13.7;Zones of Proximal Development in STEM Learning Environments;143
13.8;Being and Becoming;146
13.9;Performance Activism;148
13.10;References;150
14;Chapter 9 Reflections;151
14.1;A Performatory Approach to Developmental Interdisciplinary STEAM Learning;151
14.2;Context;151
14.3;Performance;153
14.4;Play;154
14.5;Imagining a TED Talk About Preparing for the Real World;155
15;Bibliography;159
16;Index;161